The basis of resilience in forest tree species and its use in adaptive forest management in Britain

Cavers, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2139-9236; Cottrell, J.E.. 2015 The basis of resilience in forest tree species and its use in adaptive forest management in Britain [in special issue: Evolution, ecology and tree health] Forestry, 88 (1). 13-26. 10.1093/forestry/cpu027

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Abstract/Summary

Forest ecosystems face a range of challenges in the coming decades, of which climate change, pests and diseases are the most serious. These challenges will be overlaid on a background of historically modified and fragmented forests managed in a wide range of ways for different objectives. As northern temperate forests are species-poor in a global context, their resilience to these challenges is fundamentally dependent on the resilience of individual species. However, dealing with each new threat as it arises is unlikely to be cost effective and in any case, probably not practically feasible. A better strategy for establishing long term resilience would be to harness evolutionary processes, to maximise the capability of individual tree species to respond to new threats by the reorganisation of populations via natural selection; in other words, to be resilient. Such processes depend on the internal variability of species, their mechanisms of dispersal and their ability to recruit new genotypes to a population. In this paper we review the theoretical concept of resilience, examine how it might be applied to tree populations and assess the state of knowledge of Britain’s forests from this perspective.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1093/forestry/cpu027
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Watt
ISSN:	0015-752X
Additional Keywords:	pests and pathogens, resistance mechanisms, genetics, environment, major-gene and polygenic resistance, quantitative and qualitative resistance
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Biology and Microbiology
Date made live:	30 Jul 2014 09:22 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505286

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1093/forestry/cpu027

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Watt

ISSN:

0015-752X

Additional Keywords:

pests and pathogens, resistance mechanisms, genetics, environment, major-gene and polygenic resistance, quantitative and qualitative resistance

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment
Biology and Microbiology